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In brief

Programme Summary:

- This reporting period, June to October
2007, has unfortunately seen the Caribbean suffer yet another devastating
hurricane season, being …

(New York/Geneva, 26 December 2007):
In 2007, the United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC)
teams conducted nine missions to the Americas, the highest in the history
of the teams, including the first-ever mission to Mexico. Previously, the
highest number of missions to the Americas was eight, after Hurricanes
Mitch and Georges in 1998.

NEMO Headquarters, 30th November,
2007- The 2007 Atlantic Basin Hurricane Season closes today Friday,
November 30 after an above-average season, which produced fourteen (14)
named storms with an unprecedented two Category 5 Hurricanes making landfall
in the same region.

On 21 August, 2007 Category 5 Hurricane
Dean made landfall about thirty-two (32) miles north of Corozal Town and
affected over 50,000 people in the Corozal, Orange Walk and Belize Districts
including San Pedro. Dean caused severe suffering with damages to a tune
of approx. US$100 m.

MIAMI, Nov 27 (Reuters) - For
a second year in a row, the United States has escaped a severe hurricane
hit, pushing memories of Hurricane Katrina and the flooding of New Orleans
another notch into the past.

But for Mexico, Central America, and
the Caribbean, the 2007 hurricane season ending on Friday has hardly been
benign.

"The number of people threatened by
natural disasters had increased by three times over the last 30 years and
the number of people affected by natural disasters doubled every 10 years.
Tens of millions of people had been affected this year by floods in countries
all over the world. The link between the increase in disasters and climate
change, which had been predicted by scientists, was unmistakable. Also,
more people were now living in exposed areas. Some of the biggest cities
in the world were built in disaster zones.

Louis Michel, the European Commissioner
for Development and Humanitarian Aid and Josette Sheeran, Executive Director
of the World Food Programme (WFP) jointly warned that "climate change
is an increasing threat to development and humanitarian relief efforts"
during WFP's Executive Board meeting today.

Mr. Michel, who is in Rome to address
WFP's Executive Board, said: "The recent spate of weather-related
disasters across the globe sets the alarm bells ringing.

This rainfall estimate was derived from the
daily global CMORPH precipitation dataset at a spatial resolution of approximately
27km for this region, and was calculated using microwave and infrared data
from geostationary satellites. It is possible that precipitation levels
may have been underestimated for local areas, and is not a substitute for
ground station measurements.

The Federation's mission is to improve
the lives of vulnerable people by mobilizing the power of humanity. It
is the world's largest humanitarian organization and its millions of volunteers
are active in 185 countries.

As the end of 2007 nears, the number
of people the World Food Programme is seeking to support has risen to 83
million. The amount of food assistance required to assist these people
is valued at US$3.4 billion. Considering resources mobilized thus far in
2007, the current level of funding falls short by some US$653 million.

Additional resources amounting to approximately
US$800 million are required before the end of 2007 to ensure uninterrupted
food aid deliveries for ongoing activities.

The Belize Red Cross (BRC) has received
a substantial donation to help communities affected by the passage
of Hurricane Dean.

The donation of US$100,000 ($200,000
Belize dollars) was made to the BRC by the OAK Foundation and the Parker
Family, with the support of the Association of Protected Areas Management
Organisation (APAMO), a network of NGO's in Belize that focus on conservation
of costal area communities and livelihoods particularly related to the
fishing and farming in these areas.

Speaking at the brief cheque-presentation
ceremony at the BRC headquarters in Belize City …